Vice-chancellor pay rules ‘woeful’

NEW rules to tackle soaring pay among university bosses were branded ‘woefully inadequate’ yesterday.

The Senior Staff Remuneration Code was criticised for failing to ban vicechancellors from attending committee meetings at their university at which their pay is set.

Published today by the Committee of University Chairs, the guidance aims to stop university bosses influencing their own salary, and make the decision processes on increases more transparent.

It follows a year of revelations about vice-chancellors’ enormous pay packets.

Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, said: ‘This woefully inadequate code is nothing more than another plea for restraint to a group of people who have ignored every previous request.’